Cold City v1.1

Berlin, 1950: While the Cold War rages, the secretive agents of the multi-national Reserve Police Agency creep through the shadows, hunting down the remnants of bizarre technologies and twisted wartime experiments.

But the RPA is riven by paranoia, fear and suspicion. Everyone works to their own hidden agendas, the different nationalities look at each other through a haze of mistrust. In the darkness, faced by horrors beyond your worst nightmares, will your comrades watch your back or treacherously stick a knife into it?

The great battles may be over, but the war carries on.

Join the fight.

This new version of 'Cold City' features all the information from the original version, plus all the additional detail offered in the 'Cold City Companion'. There's also a revised system chapter, which offers improvements for smoother play.

'Cold City v1.1' is written by Malcolm Craig (a|state) and illustrated by Stuart Beel (SLA Industries, Changeling, Werewolf and many other RPGs and CCGs). Graphic design is done by Paul Bourne (a|state, winner of the 2004 Indie RPG Award for Best Graphic Design & Layout).

As usual I am the Jonny come lately to reviewing this game. I would begin with saying this game is the perfect companion to Contested Ground Studios Hot War. A little adjustment would be needed for sure but the feel is very similar, just less post apocaly [...]

Cold City is an excellent story game that can support both one shots and campaigns. The v.1.1 version contains all of the material from the original version, and adds in some richer rules for task resolution, and combat. If you like games that thrive [...]

COLD CITY is a great game. It is well supplemented, and the art is great. Its a very interesting premise-- monster hunting in bombed out Berlin, ca 1948. Its a very paranoid setting, everyone has a secret agenda, and the Cold War is on the verge of start [...]

OVERVIEW Cold City is ?Paranormal Espionage? RPG set in the ?front lines? of the brewing cold war, Berlin after world war two. From the introduction; "In the ruined city of Berlin, a city slowly rising from the ashes of conflict, another war [...]

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